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Body Heat

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Body Heat (1981)

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Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 34  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Synopsis:
During one hot and sultry Florida summer, a shady lawyer launches into a torrid relationship with a lonely woman married to a rich businessman. As their relationship grows, she decides to enlist his help in killing her husband so that the two can live comfortably off his riches. After they've... [More]
During one hot and sultry Florida summer, a shady lawyer launches into a torrid relationship with a lonely woman married to a rich businessman. As their relationship grows, she decides to enlist his help in killing her husband so that the two can live comfortably off his riches. After they've successfully completed the deed, the lovers' relationship sours, and they both become principal suspects in the police investigation. [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke, Ted Danson

Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Composer: John Barry

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 24, 2006

[DVD Details]
  • Body Heat: Deluxe Edition
  • William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat, a sexy, haunting tale of desire and skullduggery that echoes 1940s film noirs but is charged with an energy and passion that could only flare in the '80s. Aided by a sultry John Barry score, Kasdan's assured directorial debut foreshadowed the emotional textures he would bring to later films The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist and Grand Canyon. Sit back and bask in this contemporary classic's wicked warmth.
  • Source: Warner Home Video
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    Steamy, explicit and highly-charged film noir reworked with an 1980s gloss.

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    02/08/08 04:42 PM
    Channel 4 Film
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    Still regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponenet of how noir has developed.

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    02/08/08 04:41 PM
    Ian Nathan
    Empire Magazine
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    Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details.

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    02/08/08 04:40 PM
    Dave Kehr
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    An excellent crime drama in the style of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett.

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    02/08/08 04:39 PM
    TV Guide's Movie Guide
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    Though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir.

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    02/08/08 04:38 PM
    Richard Corliss
    TIME Magazine
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    Suspenseful and supersexy.

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    11/13/06 08:28 AM
    Chuck O'Leary
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    ...builds slowly, then grabs you and never lets go.

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    10/20/06 11:19 AM
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    10/05/06 08:07 PM
    Cole Smithey
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    The setup is classic noir that follows the rigid three-act screenplay structure that only a Hollywood newcomer could stringently abide by, and here it works

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    09/28/06 05:17 PM
    Christopher Null
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    There's no denying the narrative confidence that brings the film to its unfashionably certain double-whammy conclusion.

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    03/18/06 10:41 PM
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    08/13/05 11:45 AM
    Emanuel Levy
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    Welcome to Hollywood Mr. Kasdan.

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    01/01/05 12:37 AM
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    11/04/04 08:19 AM
    Mark R. Leeper
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    Steamiest movie ever--still

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    10/19/04 07:35 PM
    Steve Crum
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    09/18/04 08:18 PM
    Nell Minow
    Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
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    Body Heart mixes sex with murder and comes up with a steamy brew of surprises.

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    01/31/04 01:59 PM
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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    01/23/04 04:56 PM
    Carol Cling
    Las Vegas Review-Journal
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    The great modern film noir

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    01/09/04 07:54 AM
    Jon Niccum
    Lawrence Journal-World
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